Work has begun on the first submarine of a second batch of Type 212A-class
boats for the Italian Navy. The Navy commissioned two Type 212A submarines
from an initial batch in 2005 and 2007.

India Issues RfI forAir Defense Ship FightersThe Indian Navy has released arequest for information (RfI) onthe acquisition of up to 40 fighteraircraft for the first Air DefenseShip (ADS) that is expected to becommissioned in 2014 or 2015.Defense sources indicate that theRfI was issued to U.S. firms Boeingand Lockheed Martin, France’sDassault, BAE Systems in theUnited Kingdom and the RussianAircraft Corporation MiG, former-ly Mikoyan.

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